Games *can* make you cry

I’m almost crying right now… because of this shocking little game called Passage. I wholeheartedly recomend you play it. I almost didn’t, partly because it wasn’t flash based and I hate running random .EXEs off the internet, and partly because it seemed to me it was just a junky nostalgia piece of the pixel art era, something with little content not worht my time. I warmly recomend it: it may seem super boring, but it ends in 5 minutes, try to figure out as much as possible by then, and maybe the revelation will hit you too as strongly as it hit me forcing me to play it several times until my heart accepted and dealt with the pain. Ironically the little content gets the message through much more powerfully and I may very well think it was a design decision. Imagine the same message, with compelx artwork, a gameplay of 40h … and the message is still the same as it is with our 70 year lives…